Oral history interview conducted with James Shively on December 18, 1978 by Dwayne Cox. Mr. Shively focuses largely on his education in Louisville, at Louisville Central High School and the Louisville Municipal College, in the 1930s and 1940s. He...

Oral history interview with Mrs. Amelia Ray, conducted on August 25, 1978 by Kenneth Chumbley. Mrs. Ray discusses her early life and upbringing in Tennessee as well as her life in Louisville. Mrs. Ray moved to Louisville in 1934 and attended...

Born in Kiev, USSR in 1949. Emigrated to Canada in 1980. She graduated from Moscow University in the Dept. of Fine Arts in 1973. Since arriving in Edmonton, she has taught at the University of Alberta & Grant McEwan Community College. She has...

Name of the person making the quilt: Liz Coblentz (Margaret Booth Coblentz) / Born: Cleveland, Ohio, 1940 / Attended Ohio University 1959-1964, majoring in Fine Arts. / Married John Coblentz in 1967; mother of Carrie, age 9 and Isaac, age 6. / We...

Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Research facilities; Health care facilities;

Entrance to the Child Psychiatry Research Center, University of Louisville, apparently before the facility was named in honor of William Keller, chair of the U of L Department of Psychiatry, in 1978. Location: 608 South Jackson. Current uses:...

Oral history interview with Frank Moorman, Sr., conducted on August 17, 1978 by Kenneth Chumbley. Mr. Moorman was a businessman in Louisville's Walnut Street area. Mr. Moorman discusses his parents and grandparents, and his early life in Owensboro,...

Oral history interview conducted with legislator Mae Street Kidd on October 10, November 11, and December 5, 1978 by Ken Chumbley. Ms. Kidd discusses her life, including her childhood growing up in Bourbon County. Kidd attended the Lincoln...

Undertakers and undertaking; Business people; African American businesspeople; Politicians; African American politicians; Discrimination in public accommodations; Segregation--Law and legislation; Discrimination in employment; African...

Oral history interview with Goldie Winstead Beckett, conducted on September 12, 1978 by Ken Chumbley. In this interview, Mrs. Beckett discusses her life as well as her husband’s experiences as alderman in the city of Louisville in the late 1940s...

Address: 2214 Northwestern Parkway, Louisville, Kentucky. Completed in 1847, this Marine Hospital's unique feature is the tower on top which could be identified by passersby on the Ohio River. The grounds have an expanse of mowed grass lined with...

Address: 109 E. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. Constructed in sections from 1904 through 1909, this complex of buildings originally housed the Presbyterian Theological Seminary. In 1967 it was purchased by Jefferson Community College. A great lawn...

Address: 2214 Northwestern Parkway, Louisville, Kentucky. The United States flag flies in front of the U.S. Marine Hospital. Sidewalks cross the lawn and a scattering of trees and bushes provide landscaping for the building. People stand on the...